Posts on ‘November 7th, 2008’

Via the New York Times
By SETH MYDANS
Published: November 5, 2008
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — In a vast office at the top of one of the world’s tallest buildings, former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad sits at a broad, glass-topped desk, scribbling his thoughts on a pad of unlined paper.

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Former Prime Minister Mahathir [...]

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November 6, 2008 - 9:55 am PDT - by Adam Ostrow

YouTube is set to begin offering full length feature films within “30 to 90 days” according to CNET. Parent company Google is said to be discussing a deal with at least one of the major movie studios that would [...]

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By Julian Sanchez | Published: November 06, 2008 - 05:26PM CT
Only time will tell whether President-Elect Barack Obama will be able to deliver on his promise to bring change to government, but the Illinois senator has already brought it to the dot-gov domain. Obama’s transition Web site, Change.gov, went live today, soliciting suggestions [...]

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by Simon Owens, November 6, 2008
During the Republican National Convention, NOW, a PBS weekly TV news magazine, posted an unscientific poll on its website asking viewers to vote on whether they thought vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin was qualified for the position. Like most polls the show posts every week, it was [...]

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By Glenn Fleishman | Published: November 06, 2008 - 07:25PM CT
Finding a slim vector

Academic researchers have found an exploitable hole in a popular form of wireless networking encryption. The hole is in a part of 802.11i that forms the basis of WiFi Protected Access (WPA), so it could affect routers worldwide. German [...]

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By THOMAS FULLER
Published: November 7, 2008
BANGKOK — In what lawyers described as a landmark ruling, a court in Malaysia on Friday ordered the release of one of the country’s best known bloggers, ruling that the government acted beyond its authority in invoking a threat to national security.
The blogger, Raja Petra [...]

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By Nate Anderson | Published: November 07, 2008 - 05:10AM CT
UK analysis firm Point Topic has just released its new set of worldwide broadband figures, and the news is encouraging: broadband is getting cheaper, fast. Prices have fallen by 20 percent just in 2008, and the year’s not even over with yet.
Although the [...]